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Umbar Pada Nandade

human settlement in Thane district, Konkan division, Maharashtra, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2021
Entity authorityQ2719069 ↗
Source-derived summary

Umbar Pada Nandade is a census town in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Demographics

At the 2001 India census, Umbar Pada Nandade had a population of 5689. Males constituted 53% of the population and females 47%. Umbar Pada Nandade had an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 79% and female literacy is 67%. In Umbar Pada Nandade, 13% of the population were under 6 years of age.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Umbar Pada Nandade” is human settlement in Thane district, Konkan division, Maharashtra, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Umbar, Pada and Nandade, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Umbar, Pada and Nandade is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Thane district, Konkan division, Maharashtra, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q2719069. Authority coordinates are 19.467, 73.083. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Umbar Pada Nandade”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Umbar Pada Nandade primary sources, Umbar Pada Nandade archive and Umbar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Umbar Pada Nandade”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Umbar Pada Nandade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.